Strange vertical lines in command line

Bug #663469 reported by Scmb
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #635258: Garbled chars in xterm. Edit Remove
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emacs23 (Ubuntu)
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xterm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xterm

I updated to 10.10 recently and xterm went funny. There are strange vertical lines when I type. See the picture here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/8272/upgrading-to-10-10-has-made-the-terminal-go-crazy

output of apt-cache policy xterm
xterm:
  Installed: 261-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 261-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 261-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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era (era) wrote :

This doesn't seem to be affecting Emacs, as far as I can tell. Marking as Invalid for emacs23. If you disagree, please clarify how this is an Emacs bug.

Changed in emacs23 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Scmb (seamus) wrote :

I was getting similar behaviour in emacs, but I can't now seem to reproduce it. The bug does not affect gnome-terminal, by the way...

If the emacs behaviour shows up again I'll take a screenshot. Until it does, I guess the emacs part is invalid...

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Scmb (seamus) wrote :

Here is the same behaviour happening in emacs.

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Scmb (seamus) wrote :

Very odd. The first 10 or 12 letters on the line seem immune from this behaviour, and moving the cursor backwards over the letter removes the lines, but skipping to the front of the line and moving over the letters again forward doesn't remove them. Both in xterm and emacs.

I presume this isn't actually an xterm thing, but something to do with xorg? Please do reassign as you see fit, I don't know how to.

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Scmb (seamus) wrote :

Here's another screenshot with extra context. The behaviour seems to start after the 14th character. I also seem to be losing the tops of the numbers...

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Scmb (seamus) wrote :

Also, I appear to be using emacs 22, not 23. C-h C-a:

GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2010-03-29 on palmer, modified by Ubuntu

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